Tori Amos - Hereinmyhead.com

tuna
rubber
a little blubber in my igloo
and i knew you pigtails and all
girl when they fall
and they say marianne killed herself
and i said not a chance
don't you love the girls ladies babies
old bags who say she was so pretty why
why why why did she crawl down in the old
deep ravine

c'mon pigtail girls and all those sailors
get your bags and hold down won't you just
hold down cause ed is watching my every sound
i said
they're watching my every sound

the weasel squeaks faster than a seven day week
i said that timmy and that purple monkey
are all down

at bobby's house
making themselves pesters and lesters and jesters and my
traitors of kind
and i'm just having thoughts of marianne
she could outrun the fastest slug
she could
marianne
quickest girl in the frying pan

© Sword & Stone

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"Marianne Curtis is a girl I went to school with in junior high. She was the kind of person everyone adored, she was just magical. I had written a song about her years ago which I used to play in the bars sometimes. It never went any further than being performed, I didn't record it. Since then I have always wanted to have Marianne in a song. She died from a drug overdose when she was 15. It is not known, but I don't believe it was suicide. I think she took the wrong things together. She is very special to me, and comes to visit in my songs sometimes."

"Sometimes I hear this person's voice in my head and she's not who I really want. She's comes and meets me sometimes."
-- Tori intro to song; Boston, MA 09/13/96

"I've got meanness in me. And some of you girls have meanness in you too. And it's not necessarily something I know we're very proud of. Well�sometimes I'm not when I'm vvvvvvvvicious. And that usually happens because�ohhhh god� who knows why. But it's funny when it happens and you just become one of these like um...you know those comic books? Sven the berserker? Well, it'd be nice if I had a better understanding of it. And I think those of you that have those crazy tempers know what I'm talking about. Now some of you are at the other end of those crazy tempers, which isn't that fun either is it? Or maybe it is, isn't it, you little mmmMmmMmm, you little gimp, you! (snort-laughs) But um, the thing is, this girl I knew once named Marianne, was the absolutely, you know, coolest. She was totally cool. And yet, she didn't have this meanness in her. She had so many other things in her, you know, but meanness wasn't one of them. So, when I was hangin around her, I didn't need to have this meanness. Basically when my mother said, 'hey, um, oh my god...Marianne killed herself.' The only thing I could think of was, 'Fuck you, mom.' Because, in truth, nobody was really the same after Marianne killed herself."
-- Tori intro to song; Milwaukee, WI 06/08/96